Short Bio
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I was advised by Prof. Jim Anderson in the Real-Time Systems Group.
Education
Publications
- Zhishan Guo, Sudharsan Vaidhun, Luca Satinelli, Samsil Arefin, Jun Wang, and Kecheng Yang. Mixed-Criticality Scheduling upon Permitted Failure Probability and Dynamic Priority, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2021, to appear.
- Sergey Voronov, James H. Anderson, and Kecheng Yang. Tardiness Bounds for Fixed-Priority Global Scheduling without Intra-Task Precedence Constraints, Real-Time Systems, 2021, to appear.
- Kecheng Yang and Zheng Dong. Mixed-Criticality Scheduling in Compositional Real-Time Systems with Multiple Budget Estimates, Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), pp. 25-37, December 2020.
- Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Nathan Fisher, Neil Audsley, and Zheng Dong. Pythia-MCS: Enabling Quarter-Clairvoyance in I/O-Driven Mixed-Criticality Systems, Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), pp. 38-50, December 2020.
- Kecheng Yang, Ashikahmed Bhuiyan, and Zhishan Guo. F2VD: Fluid Rates to Virtual Deadlines for Precise Mixed-Criticality Scheduling on a Varying-Speed Processor, Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 1-9, November 2020.
- Zhishan Guo, Kecheng Yang, Fan Yao, and Amro Awad. Inter-Task Cache Interference Aware Partitioned Real-Time Scheduling, Proceedings of the 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 218-226, March 2020.
- Zheng Dong, Weisong Shi, Guangmo Tong, and Kecheng Yang. Collaborative Autonomous Driving: Vision and Challenges, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Connected and Autonomous Driving (MetroCAD), pp. 17-26, February 2020.
- Ashikahmed Bhuiyan*, Kecheng Yang*, Samsil Arefin, Abusayeed Saifullah, Nan Guan, and Zhishan Guo. Mixed-Criticality Multicore Scheduling of Real-Time Gang Task Systems, Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), pp. 469-480, December 2019. Winner, Outstanding Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award.
*Both authors contributed equally to this work. - Ashikahmed Bhuiyan, Zhishan Guo, Sai Sruti, and Kecheng Yang. Precise Scheduling of Mixed-Criticality Tasks by Varying Processor Speed, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS), pp. 123-132, November 2019.
- Kecheng Yang and Zhishan Guo. EDF-Based Mixed-Criticality Scheduling with Graceful Degradation by Bounded Lateness, Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), pp. 1-6, August 2019.
- Zhishan Guo, Kecheng Yang, Sudharsan Vaidhun, Samsil Arefin, Sajal K. Das, and Haoyi Xiong. Uniprocessor Mixed-Criticality Scheduling with Graceful Degradation by Completion Rate, Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), pp. 373-383, December 2018.
- Ming Yang, Tanya Amert, Kecheng Yang, Nathan Otterness, James H. Anderson, F. Donelson Smith and Shige Wang. Making OpenVX Really "Real Time", Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), pp. 80-93, December 2018.
- Sergey Voronov, James H. Anderson, and Kecheng Yang. Tardiness Bounds for Fixed-Priority Global Scheduling without Intra-Task Precedence Constraints, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS), pp.8-18, October 2018. Winner, Outstanding Paper Award.
- Zhishan Guo, Luca Santinelli, and Kecheng Yang. Mixed-Criticality Scheduling with Limited HI-Criticality Behaviors, Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA), pp.187-199, September 2018.
- Kecheng Yang and James H. Anderson. On the Soft Real-Time Optimality of Global EDF on Uniform Multiprocessors, Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), pp.319-330, December 2017.
- Kecheng Yang and James H. Anderson. On the Dominance of Minimum-Parallelism Multiprocessor Supply, Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), pp. 215-226, December 2016.
- Kecheng Yang, Ming Yang, and James H. Anderson. Reducing Response-Time Bounds for DAG-Based Task Systems on Heterogeneous Multicore Platforms, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS), pp. 349-358, October 2016. Longer version with an online appendix.
- Catherine E. Nemitz, Kecheng Yang, Ming Yang, Pontus Ekberg and James H. Anderson. Multiprocessor Real-Time Locking Protocols for Replicated Resources, Proceedings of the 28th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), pp. 50-60, July 2016. Longer version with online appendices.
- Glenn A. Elliott, Kecheng Yang, and James H. Anderson. Supporting Real-Time Computer Vision Workloads using OpenVX on Multicore+GPU Platforms, Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), pp. 273-284, December 2015.
- Kecheng Yang, Glenn A. Elliott, and James H. Anderson. Analysis for Supporting Real-Time Computer Vision Workloads using OpenVX on Multicore+GPU Platforms, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS), pp. 77-86, November 2015.
- Kecheng Yang and James H. Anderson. On the Soft Real-Time Optimality of Global EDF on Multiprocessors: From Identical to Uniform Heterogeneous, Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), pp. 1-10, August 2015.
- Zhishan Guo, Luca Santinelli, and Kecheng Yang. EDF Schedulability Analysis on Mixed-Criticality Systems with Permitted Failure Probability, Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), pp. 187-196, August 2015.
- Kecheng Yang and James H. Anderson. An Optimal Semi-Partitioned Scheduler for Uniform Heterogeneous Multiprocessors, Proceedings of the 27th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), pp. 199-210, July 2015.
- Kecheng Yang and James H. Anderson. Optimal GEDF-Based Schedulers that Allow Intra-Task Parallelism on Heterogeneous Multiprocessors, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Symposium on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia), pp. 30-39, October 2014.
- Kecheng Yang and James H. Anderson. Soft Real-Time Semi-Partitioned Scheduling with Restricted Migrations on Uniform Heterogeneous Multiprocessors, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS), pp. 215-224, October 2014.
- Kecheng Yang and Zheng Dong. Mixed-Criticality Scheduling with Varying Processor Supply in Compositional Real-Time Systems, Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Mixed Criticality Systems (WMC), pp. 26-31, December 2019. Erratum.
- Kecheng Yang and James H. Anderson. Tardiness Bounds for Global EDF Scheduling on a Uniform Multiprocessor, Proceedings of the 7th International Real-Time Scheduling Open Problems Seminar (RTSOPS), pp. 3-4, July 2016.
Journal Papers
Conference Papers
Workshop Papers
Teaching
- CS 3358 Data Structures and Algorithms (Facebook EIR), Spring 2021.
- CS 5302 Foundations of Data Structures and Algorithm Design (Facebook EIR), Spring 2021.
- CS 7389C Real-Time Systems, Spring 2021.
- CS 3358 Data Structures and Algorithms (Facebook EIR), Fall 2020.
- CS 5302 Foundations of Data Structures and Algorithm Design (Facebook EIR), Fall 2020.
- CS 3358 Data Structures and Algorithms, Spring 2020.
- CS 5302 Foundations of Data Structures and Algorithm Design, Spring 2020.
- CS 7389C Real-Time Systems, Spring 2020.
- CS 3358 Data Structures and Algorithms, Fall 2019.
- CS 5302 Foundations of Data Structures and Algorithm Design, Fall 2019.
- CS 3358 Data Structures and Algorithms, Spring 2019.
- CS 5302 Foundations of Data Structures and Algorithm Design, Spring 2019.
- CS 3358 Data Structures and Algorithms, Fall 2018.
- COMP 283 Discrete Structures, Summer 2017.